Land use policy and community strategy. Factors enabling and hampering integrated local strategy in Alberta, Canada

Kristof Van Assche, Monica Gruezmacher, Bob Summers, Joshua Culling, Shaival Gajjar, Michael Granzow, Andrew Lowerre, Leith Deacon, Jared Candlish and Abhimanyu Jamwal

Land Use Policy, 2022, vol. 118, issue C

Abstract: We argue for embedding land use policy in broader strategies of community development as a way of contributing to the long-term success of communities and identify enabling factors for strategy formation and for coordination between land use policy and such strategy. In analysing eight case communities in Alberta, Canada, we identified several types of non- coordination involved: non-coordination between institutions organizing land use (‘land use tools’), non-coordination between land use tools and broader development strategies and non-coordination between such strategies and circulating narratives on the long-term. Higher level actors, single sector economies, prior strategies, strength of local administration, identity and ideology are factors shaping the formation of strategy and the coordination between strategy, long-term perspectives and land use tools. If strategy emerges, it can compete with others, it can still be ignored, or undermined through exceptions, not communicating and not- updating. Local government does not always have a grip on its own future. Strategy is presented as both narrative and institution and slowly reveals itself as a function, not a form.

Keywords: Land use policy; Community strategy; Long-term perspectives; Policy integration; Alberta; Institutional capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106101

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